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"He was woken up about four in the morning by screams from downstairs, got out of bed in his pyjamas obviously unarmed, nothing in his hands and hurrying down the stairs."

[Ms. Roxburgh's] client, whom she said was innocent, was shot "without any warning, at close range" as he came down the stairs, she added.

"He wasn't asked to freeze, given any warning and didn't know the people in his house were police officers until after he was shot," she added.

She said Mr Kahar was "lucky still to be alive" and reports he was shot by his brother were "absolute nonsense"...

Security sources told the BBC that the potentially fatal device thought to be in the house could produce casualty figures in double or even triple figures.

But the operation has angered some locals, prompting a leaflet to be circulated announcing a meeting to discuss the raid.

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They haven't actually found the "potentially fatal device" yet. But you could injure hundreds of people with a toaster, if you throw it often enough.

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"A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned.
Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh.
The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar.
The Toronto busts are linked to arrests that began last August at a Canadian border post near Niagara Falls and continued in October in Sarajevo, London and Scandinavia, and earlier this year in New York and Georgia.
The intricate web of connections between Toronto, London, Atlanta, Sarajevo, Dhaka, and elsewhere illustrates the challenge confronting counter-terrorism investigators almost five years after 9/11."

What do you think they are trying to describe by not describing it?

"at least 18 related arrests had already taken place"
How were they related and when did they take place?

"one of several overlapping probes that include..."

Why are they "overlapping" and what does that mean anyway? Overlapping?

"linked to arrests that began last August..."
Linked how?

"intricate web of connections between..."
What connections?

Looks like the entire thing hinged on the uncorroborated word of one informant:

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But what remains puzzling is the reliance on a single apparently uncorroborated source for information that prompted a high-profile mass raid which, even without the shooting of one of the men, would have provoked a strong reaction. Andy Hayman, the Met's assistant commissioner specialist operations, refused to apologise for the raid yesterday while admitting that so far officers had not found the specific item they were looking for - thought to be a chemical device - in the terraced house in Forest Gate which was the subject of a pre-dawn raid involving more than 250 officers, including armed teams and government scientists.

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Two men arrested in an anti-terror raid in east London were released without charge last night.

One week after police swooped on their home in Forest Gate, Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, who was shot in the shoulder during the raid, and his brother Abul Koyair, 20, were freed.

Both had been detained under the Terrorism Act 2000, suspected of being involved in a plot to make a chemical device that could be used in a terrorist act.

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Who needs charges?

Have these wimpy pinko Brits never heard of GITMO? That's where we put inferior races who aren't worth charges.

These two were Muslims.

In their home.

In pyjamas.

What the hell more are the authorities waiting for?

Fertilizer!?

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The Forest Gate raid is not the first time that a high profile anti-terrorist operation has resulted in men being released without charge days later. Last October, 10 Iraqi refugees were arrested in Derby, Wolverhampton and Croydon amid media reports of plans for a wave of car bomb attacks across Britain.

The Chancellor, Gordon Brown, said it was one of three major Islamic militant plots foiled since last July. However, security sources have confirmed to The Observer that no evidence of any terror plot was ever found and all the men were freed within a week. Source

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